Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Customer Data Acquisition and Sharing among Rivals

Women's Noncognitive Skills and Transition to Employment after Childbirth

Cooperative Customer Data Acquisition and Sharing among Rivals

Comment on: Procurement, Liberalization and Specialization. Jan Boone, Christoph Schottmüller

Die deutsche Energiepolitik: Politikempfehlungen der Wissenschaft

Innovation in Concentrating Solar Power: A Study Drawing on Patent Data

Better understanding the innovative process of renewable energy technologies is important for tackling climate change. Though concentrating solar power is receiving growing interest, innovation studies so far have explored innovative activity in solar technologies in general, ignoring the major differences between solar photovoltaic and solar thermal technologies. This study relies on patent data...

Future Coal Markets in the Light of Climate and National Policies: Scenarios with the COALMOD-World Model

How Does the Technology Policy Mix Perform to Capture the Technical Potential of Photovoltaics?: A Comparison of the Current Situation in Germany and China

Overcoming Data Limitations in Nonparametric Efficiency Measurement: A PCA-DEA Application to Natural Gas Transmission

This paper provides an empirical demonstration for a practical approach of efficiency evaluation against the background of limited data availability in some regulated industries. Here, traditional DEA may result in a lack of discriminatory power when high numbers of variables but only limited observations are available. We apply PCA-DEA for radial efficiency measurement to US natural gas...

Electric Vehicles in Imperfect Electricity Markets: A German Case Study

Determinants of Global Oil Production: Empirical Evidence for More Than Short Run Cartel Rent Maximization

Cost Efficiency and Economies of Scale and Density in German Water Distribution

This paper studies the cost structure of water distribution utilities in Germany. Stochastic cost frontier models are applied to an unbalanced panel of 371 observations of 72 companies in the period from 1998 to 2007. The results suggest that some utilities could reduce their costs by more than 20%. Water losses and elevation differences in a service area turn out to be significant cost drivers....

Regional Asymmetries in Farm Size

Shadow Economy, Tax Policy, and Labour Markets in an International Comparison: First Results from Cross Section and Panel Analyses

Building on new behavioral and institutional theories, using a data set of about 450 variables and augmenting the Sala-i-Martin definition of robustness, we find evidence in support of the hypothesis that the standard causes of the shadow economy (SE), taxes, the administrative burden and labor market regulations, are not per se crucial in determining the size of the SE. There are many other...

Herausforderung Klimaschutz - Chancen für Unternehmer

Correlation Neglect in Financial Decision-Making

Das DIW Berlin: Aufgaben, Themen, (konjunkturpolitische) Fragestellungen

Anhaltende Armut - stabiler Reichtum - schrumpfende Mitte?: Tendenzen der Wohlstandsverteilung in Deutschland; Wissenschaftssicht

Testing for Convergence in Stock Markets: A Non-linear Factor Approach

This paper applies the Phillips and Sul (2007) method to test for convergence in stock returns to an extensive dataset including monthly stock price indices for five EU countries (Germany, France, the Netherlands, Ireland and the UK) as well as the US over the period 1973-2008. We carry out the analysis on both sectors and individual industries within sectors. As a first step, we use the Stock and...

Estimation of a Panel Selection Model